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The president didn’t authorize it, so by definition the protest Sunday of a speech by former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice might have been torture. More than 100 people picketed Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park Sunday (Norm Coleman was inside, Coleen Rowley outside). Signs like “Try Condi Rice for War Crimes” referenced her statement on torture last spring that “by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Conventions Against Torture.”
Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …
STATEWIDE: Gov. Pawlenty’s 2004 pledge to end homelessness by 2010 hasn’t happened yet. Maybe he should have promised a moon shot. [Associated Press]
ST. CLOUD: Collegians study Berlin Wall. You know you’ve been put out to pasture as a historical event when you’re the subject of a two-credit class that attracts seven students. [St. Cloud Times]
SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson voted to add an abortion ban to the health bill. The amendment passed, but he voted against the bill anyway. [Smart Politics]
ST. PAUL: Easy come, easy not go. Pawlenty’s quick trade trip to Mexico planned for today got put off when President Felipe Calderon had more pressing obligations than meeting with the next president of the United States. [Star Tribune]
ALBERT LEA: Legionnaires want a digital sign. It would change every nine seconds, in a historic district. [Albert Lea Tribune]
ST. PAUL: You say your job is killing you? For Minnesotans who really did die on the job, a new memorial on the State Capitol grounds opens next year. [Associated Press]
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Comment posted November 10, 2009 @ 9:02 am
The Holocaust please let us never forget the Holocaust was history’s worst mass killing and torture of innocent people.
That Beth El Synagogue in St. Louis Park should have as a speaker a person whose “statement on torture last spring that “by definition, if it was authorized by the president, it did not violate our obligations under the Conventions against Torture.”
WAS NOT WELL THOUGHT OUT!
WHO EVER WAS INSIDE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEM SELVES:
To say the least to invite a person who stands up for Torture. Her statements would be like saying torture of and murdering of 6 million innocent men, women and children mostly Jewish by Nazi’s was OK because the German leader at the time authorized.”
Their should have been more people protesting, how can we Americans be a symbol of Good when in the past we had our soldiers obey a state-sponsored policy and torture people because their commander said so.
Sadly it sounds very similar to the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. “Holocaust” is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire.”
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